Alexie Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

New York: Open Road Media, 1993. — 343 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4804-5716-4.The twentieth anniversary edition of Sherman Alexie’s iconic short story collection — featuring a new prologue from the authorThe twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection — an instant classic — paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth. We follow Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the longwinded storyteller no one really listens to; his half-hearted nemesis, Victor, the basketball star turned recovering alcoholic; and a wide cast of other vividly drawn characters on a haunting journey filled with humor and sorrow, resilience and resignation, dreams and reality. Alexie’s unadulterated honesty and boundless compassion come together in a poetic vision of a world in which the gaps between past and present are not really gaps after all.The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven received a Special Citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction, and was the basis for the acclaimed 1998 feature film Smoke Signals*.
This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.